On Saturday 23 September 2006 11:58, Claude Jones wrote: >On Fri September 22 2006 11:43 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 22 September 2006 23:37, Charles Curley wrote: >> >On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:23:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> On Friday 22 September 2006 22:46, Claude Jones wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> The 1.3beta version of skype for linux is working quite >> >> well for me, on two machines here. If you don't have that >> >> version, go get it, or I'd assume any even newer version >> >> they may have for linux now. >> > >> >I concur. Also the 1.3 beta has a test call option, which >> > lets you test stuff like mixer settings before you pester a >> > real person with testing. >> >> AFAIK, all earlier versions also had that. But since it >> didn't work after oss was deprecated, there was a long period >> during which skype and linux were mutually exclusive. > >Installed the beta version - it's seems to have fixed the >disconnect at connect problem. However, trying various >combinations and permutations of your suggested mic settings >doesn't produce audible audio on the other end of the call. I >can connect, the other person sees that it's me, I can hear >them, but, they can't hear me... >Started playing with alsamixer to see it that would help, but it >keeps locking up as soon as I select the mic to adjust. In KDE >sound control, I've got it set to full duplex. I've tried the >various capture options you suggested, Gene, but no cigar... And thats sound more like a driver/hardware miss-match to me, Claude. I think I'd take this to the alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxx list, posting the appropriate stanza of an lspci -vv output, and an lsmod. Also the mobo model & bios revision loaded. It could also be something that a newer alsalib might fix. Those guys, Lee Revel in particular, seem to track this sort of thing down in good time. You may have to subscribe to post, I've forgotten. >-- >Claude Jones >Brunswick, Md, USA -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
